Databases

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Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community. NBER search includes access to working papers, chapters, books, researcher material, NBER Digest or Reporter.

The home page for the National Center for Health Statistics includes the mission statement, news releases and fact sheets, publications, and links to CDC employment opportunities. It also includes links to a large collection of NCHS publications that provide detailed statistics on births, morbidity, mortality, and health status indicators for the population of the United States.

Makes it easier for American citizens to find and access information from across the DOE complex nationwide, without knowing DOE's organizational structure. Information is offered in the DOE's four broad mission areas: science and R&D results; energy and technology for industry and homeowners; energy market information and analysis; and nuclear security and environmental management.
"Retrieves relevance-ranked individual site results from 17 distributed DOE databases and 82 websites, or 20 million searchable pages, with hyperlinks to the databases/pages where the original content can be viewed." --OSTI press release dated February 15, 2013.

The Consumer Panel Data include information about product purchases made by a panel of consumer households across all retail outlets in all US markets. The data include purchases from all Nielsen-tracked categories, including food, nonfood grocery items, health and beauty aids, and select general merchandise. The data represent approximately 40,000 - 60,000 US households that continually provide information about the makeup of their households, the products they buy, as well as when and where they make purchases. The Retail Scanner Data consist of weekly purchase and pricing data generated from participating retail store point-of-sale systems in all US markets. Data are included from approximately 35,000 grocery, drug, mass merchandiser, and other stores. Products from all Nielsen-tracked categories are included in the data, such as food, nonfood grocery items, health and beauty aids, and select general merchandise.

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kiltsnielsen.chicagobooth.edu Registration required. Available to tenure-line Stanford faculty and PhD students only. Others, such as clinical professors, adjunct professors, lecturers, and other non-tenure track faculty are not authorized to access the data. Each researcher is required to provide Chicago Booth with an annual status report.